quae fuerint, _exceptis_)" (_Life_, p. 2,
note). The monks were a constant source of delight to the Newstead
"revellers." Francis Hodgson, in his "Lines on a Ruined Abbey in a
Romantic Country" (_Poems_, 1809), does not spare them--

"'Hail, venerable pile!' whose ivied walls
Proclaim the desolating lapse of years:
And hail, ye hills, and murmuring waterfalls,
Where yet her head the ruin'd Abbey rears.
No longer now the matin tolling bell,
Re-echoing loud among the woody glade,
Calls the fat abbot from his drowsy cell,
And warns the maid to flee, if yet a maid.
No longer now the festive bowl goes round,
Nor monks get drunk in honour of their God."]

[y] {20} The original MS. inserts two stanzas which were rejected during
the composition of the poem:--

_Of all his train there was a henchman page,_
_peasant_ _served_
_A {-dark eyed-} boy, who {-loved-} his master well;_
_And often would his pranksome prate engage_
_Harold's_
_Childe {-Burun's-} ear, when his proud heart did swell_
_With sable thoughts that he disdained to tell_.
_Alwin_
_Then would he smile on him, as {-Rupert-} smiled,_
_{-Robin-}_
_When aught that from his young lips archly fell_
_Harold's_
_The gloomy film from {-Burun's-} eye beguiled;_
_And pleased the Childe appeared nor ere the boy reviled_.}
_And pleased for a glimpse appeared the woeful Childe_. }

_Him and one yeoman only did he take_
_To travel Eastward to a far countree;_
_And though the boy was grieved to leave the lake_
_On whose firm banks he grew from Infancy,_
_Eftsoons his little heart beat merrily_
_With hope of foreign nations to behold,_
_And many things right marvellous to see,_
_vaunting_
_Of which our {-lying-} voyagers oft have told,_
_{-From Mandevilles' and scribes of similar mold.-}_ }
or, _In tomes pricked out with prints to monied ... sold_}
_In many a tome as true as Mandeville's of old_. }

[z] ----_Childe Burun_----.--[MS.]

[aa] {21} Stanza ix. was the result of much elaboration. The first
draft, which was